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impale

verb as in stab

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Example Sentences

Her testimony resulted in the imprisonment of two people for the tree spiking–a dangerous practice where metal spikes are impaled into trees to try and prevent logging.

There is not a moment of Thompson’s screen time she does not render a cool pleasure, each line delivery an icicle falling from a skyscraper to impale an unfortunate target.

Doctors this week published an image of just such an uncommon ocular impaling.

These can be invasive, shift around while exercising and god forbid you do anything where you fall and impale yourself on it.

But higher taxes would impale my paycheck, tomorrow, unless the right people are in office.

When a company lives by the icon, it can, at the very least, impale itself on the icon.

It squealed, shrill with triumph, and the horn swept up to impale him.

The infuriated bull was fast nearing him, with head lowered, and horns set to crush or impale him.

"I don't care to listen to your offensive utterances," she said, gazing at him as if to impale him with her glance.

David took out his penknife and proceeded to impale his cigar upon the blade thereof.

The elephants trumpeted shrilly; and while some tried to charge it and impale it on their tusks, others stampeded.

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On this page you'll find 26 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to impale, such as: prick, transfix, lance, perforate, pierce, and punch.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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